Having politicians interviewed by reporters who specialize in politics that has yielded significantly worse results than if they were interviewed by reporters who specialized in literally anything else.

It seemed to work better back in the days of Helen Thomas

I'm just gonna sit over here toggling 'like' on this comment a hundred times.

Special exception to the First Amendment for "if you want to be a politics reporter you gotta take a class or two in public policy first"

It seems blindingly obvious to say it, but Harris's job won't be to run for president, and the coverage should reflect that

The POLITICO talent pipeline & its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

This is mostly because "politics" reporters are *not experts in anything*. They're Nepos like Haberman, IV inbreds with no particular area of knowledge but entry passes to the right society parties, or both. Give these interviews to the science desk, the foreign desk, or the economics desk.